KEST 2003

KEST 2003 16-19 SEPTEMBER 2003 HONJO CITY, JAPAN

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Conference Venue
The 1st. International Conference on Knowledge Economy and Development of Science and Technology will be held at the AV hall, Akita Prefecture University
Honjo City, Akita Prefecture, Japan

September 16 - 19, 2003
http://www.akita-pu.ac.jp/system/KEST2003/
http://www.aise.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/KEST/KEST03/

Access
From Narita Airport to Akita Airport:
Take a Narita express to Tokyo Station. Change to local subway bound for Haneda Airport and take domestic flight to Akita City

Click here to view the access map.

From Narita Airport to Akita Railway Station:
Take a Keisei Skyline to Ueno Station.. Change to Tohoku Shinkansen (North East super rapid train) bound for Akita city
Click here to view the map of Akita Railway Station.

From Hotel to Conference Venue:
Take suttle bus ran by organization commitee of the conference

Hotel Information
Following hotels is located at the centre of Honjo city.
(1) Hotel Airisu
(2) Grand Hotel Honjou

Conference also provide a lodging house for free. Students may use it with a limitation of 30 persons. Shuttle bus will ply between
the lodging house and honjo city during the conference period.

About Honjo

Home to Faculty of System Science and Technology Akita Prefectural University, Honjo is the largest town in South Akita with a healthy, culturally diverse population of approximately 50,000 citizens living on just over 188 square kilometers of land at the foot of the Chaokai Mountains. Follow the link Honjo for more detailed information about Honjo. The weather in honjo is warm, but pleasant, this time of the year with a mean daily temperature of 11°C.

More photos can be found at the Photos Pages.

Visitors

There are a number of places to visit in and around Akita. Akita Prefecture offers a wide variety of services to tourists. For a detailed listing of these services and places to visit, follow the link Services to Tourists.

About Honjo campus of Akita Prefectureal Univesity

Faculty of System Science and Technology of Akita Prefectural University, which is located in Honjo city, was founded in 1999 on two fundamental concepts. One is to train talented young people who will be ready to assume leadership roles in the 21st century. The other is to establish an open platform that promotes the regional industrial development with the help of new technologies through international exchange and cooperation. Over one thousand students are studying in four departments of engineering.

Honjo campus of Akita Prefectural University

computational classroom

Please visit the Akita Prefectural University Home Page for a comprehensive look at the University

Post Conference Shirakami Mountain Tours

The Shirakami Mountain Range, which runs along the border between Akita and Aomori Prefectures and contains Japan's largest virgin beech forest, has been registered as a World Heritage Natural Resource; Of course this splendid natural resource has many possibilities as a tourist area, but with its declaration as a World Heritage Natural Resource, it must also be considered as a legacy to be preserved for future generations. Our ancestors lived and thrived in this rich nature, developing a unique culture, which has been handed down to us. Therefore, now it is the responsibility of today's modern generations to go from trying to think of ways our natural resources can be used for tourism to thinking of what kind of legacy we want to pass down to our descendants.

Shirakami-Mountains "World Heritage Natural Resource"(Japanese)